Massive night attack on Odessa: a fire broke out in the center, a child was among the victims
Date: 2024-01-17 Author: Кирило Загоруйко Categories: WAR, REGIONS
At night, due to a massive drone attack in Odessa, three people were injured, including a child.
“For almost 3 hours, air defense units worked. One drone was destroyed in the Nikolaev region and the Kirovograd region. However, the enemy concentrated the main efforts on attacks on Odessa. Kamikaze drones entered at a critically low altitude from the Black Sea,” the Southern Defense Forces reported Ukraine
It is said that in the Odessa region, 11 drones were shot down on approach to the coast, the vast majority fell into the Black Sea, but the debris of several downed drones and the blast wave damaged apartment buildings, shops, and private cars of citizens in the Primorsky district of Odessa.
Fires occurred in several places - apartments and cars of civilians in the city were burning. The fires have now been extinguished. Three people were injured.
According to the head of the Odessa Police Department Oleg Kiper, a 62-year-old man was wounded by shrapnel. A woman born in 1955 and a girl born in 1995 were also injured. Doctors provide people with the help they need.
A total of 130 civilians were evacuated from the damaged house.
The regional headquarters of the State Emergency Service released a video showing the house where the fire occurred and the fire being extinguished. Frightened residents of the house tell how they escaped the fire. Shown are destroyed apartments of an apartment building.
